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Twbt also allows you to zoom out really far, I can see all but about 20 tiles east/west of my 6*6 map when zoomed out. ( there is some wonkiness if I go further)

The best part of twbt is that you can zoom in/out TEXT.
Very nice at trade time, or in the stocks screen. You can even shrink down the designations menu!

  Goatmaan

I'm still playing a peaceful 40.19 fort, but when I upgrade I'll be doing high combat forts.
Thanks for helping me get a handle on this new mechanic.

  Goatmaan

I'm just wondering about the wear.
When you send the heroes against the collosuss, they might get hit, and it'll be a *HIT* not some sissy kobold -tap-, the more they fight, the more wear, right?

  Goatmaan

I've got very limited water, but this thread has given some projects to my dwarfs!!
New meeting area to wash all those smelly children.
I've noticed that the 12 to 30 age range has a lot of "can't handle stress" "beserk" and other bad things, and these grew up here. I'm betting the under 12 crowd is full of them too.
40.19 fort so I still have tantrum spirals, too old a fort for that. Gotta keep the little freaks happy.

   Goatmaan

After checking the map it seems the damage is already done.
IF fireclay is a viable tree root soil, the best I could do is 3z trees, and that on about 1/3 of the map. Without raising the original ground level (pathing) its not really worth it..
After reading the wiki, I'm still not sure about the soil thickness thing.

  Goatmaan

I'll have to do some tests to check for trees growing into floor. I have a small spot I can use.
Is there any problems removing murky pools? I have a lot of them, many already channeled to rectangle to ease previous paving. They only get water on the orginal pool bottom. Guess I could just dig one deeper huh?

Just lost 15 game days to a crash. 13 of those days I had 17 idlers. My dwarfs hauled their asses off...max size booze pile filled, and granite stone piles refilled from far edge of map, by hand. Plus the mining out there to get the stone. Proved the 3 wide hallway grid works for the hauling tho.
Just have to redo it.
Game crashed on the tic to 15th day of spring. Damn elves.

The bloodthorn will wait until population goal is met, then we dig down. Ill keep oak and birch on hand in case of a 40 year king of the hill in the first cavern.

    Goatmaan

This whole thing got me rethinking my strategy of stockpiling blocks out on the surface, while thinning the young forest. And the game years it'll take for steel and population goals are met.
I have "very deep" soil. I'm pretty sure I've previously removed a soil z level.
I have a lot of miners. I have some gametime ahead of me.
Why not just drop the map, and the floor becomes the roof over the forest.
If it causes pathing issues, it can't tank the fps 

  Goatmaan

Patrik,
 To be clear on this...I'm forced to use the mechanic, I didn't even know it existed bedore it started! ! Now its too late. I'm pretty sure I maxxed wood from the dwarfs, when they showed up they brought 774 logs. That's qiute a bit below the forts population! So it's not that I use them all... I am back to harvesting 100+ trees a year, but they are new growth, few logs each. The 10*10. block stockpiles are consuming bins, and I'm trying to make about 30 masterwork ballistae, and about 300 more beds. Then there's the steel. Apparently the vamps got the armorsmiths, so its slow going.
Also the lack of logs prevents migrants, wich is ok for now. Without steel armor to put them in, it'd be just more xclothesx to deal with!

19 months ago I started Anvillocked with the goal of a 1000 adult dwarf fort.
 Apparently I made 2 mistakes. Paving the map, and wasting logs. (Seasonal fertilizing 9 5*5 plots for YEARS!!)
Anvillocked. Without this log "mechanic" our anvils are truly locked.
 With this log "mechanic" we receive NO migrants, preventing the 1000 adult goal.
How's that for irony?
Thanks Toady, love your game!

  Goatmaan

Ps. We reached a high of 997 total dwarfs. Then I made the "young" haulers, made some stone piles, some ore piles....when they got full, I said hmnn... what else needs hauled... ran clean owned scattered x, and for the first time ever overloaded multiple 1*3 stairs, 52(?) dead.!! Quatum happiness shift, oh yay!! Someone tantrumed and destroyed the door keeping the 2 vamps in the mausoleum...and the badass captain of the guard is punching dwarfs to death for mandate/production violations. Happy days.
Speaking of days, a game day takes 7 minutes, 10 seconds. 
 We won't be done anytime soon.